#speaker

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face. ↗

— Doug Ose

#congress #face #fact #force #greatest

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. ↗

— Plutarch

#disposition #mind #seen #speaker #state

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. ↗

— John Powell

#know #listener #speaker #truly #wants

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#free #free speech #given #ignorant #instead

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#cannot #committee #ever #fact #half

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#association #because #cartoonists #confused #editorial

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#dependable #depends #hope #i #immigrants

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record. ↗

— Peter King

#cheney #dick cheney #every #george #george bush

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#anti-semitic #blatantly #had #iraq #jews